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Obama ex-aide: Why Liberals Should Back Gorsuch

Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal says the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, an extraordinary judge and man, to the Supreme Court is the first thing President Trumps done right. Writing in The New York Times, the former Obama official says that if the Senate confirms anyone for the seat, Gorsuch should be at the top of the list. Though theyre on opposite political sides, Katyal says Gorsuch brings a sense of fairness and decency to the job, and a temperament that suits the nations highest court. Moreover, Gorsuch would help to restore confidence in the rule of law and not compromise principle to favor the president who appointed him.

Foreign desk: Dont Ignore New Fighting in Ukraine

The frozen conflict in East Ukraine is growing hot again, notes Noah Rothman at Commentary. Since Sunday, eight Ukrainian soldiers have been killed with another 26 wounded, plus unspecified civilian casualties, in fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russia-supported forces. Yet this has been met with stony silence from a distracted political class in the United States, which he calls a grave mistake because the fighting may be a prelude to something with more immediate repercussions for global peace and stability. Donald Trumps campaign statements may have given Vladimir Putin the idea that a Trump administration will provide him with new latitude and renewed freedom of action. So we ignore whats happening in Ukraine at our own peril.

Security expert: Spare Us Irans Pieties on Immigration

Even as America launches into a robust debate on immigration policy, the last thing we need is the voice of Tehrans terror-sponsoring regime insinuating itself, says Claudia Rosett at PJ Media. But thats exactly what Irans foreign minister, Javad Zarif, [is] trying to do by calling Trumps executive order a great gift to extremists. Says Rosett: Lets be clear on whats really going on here. Zarif, while presenting himself as an enemy of extremists, is a prominent official voice of an Iranian regime that has ranked for years as the Middle Easts biggest Old Boys Club of extremism. Indeed, Irans Islamic Republic, from the year of its inception right up to the present, has made a practice of seizing and holding Americans as de facto hostages, for which the Obama administration paid $1.7 billion ransom.

From the right: Trumps Wrong, But Libs Are Hypocrites

President Trumps executive order on immigration is both ham-handed and under-inclusive, not to mention terrible public relations for America, says Dan McLaughlin at National Review, but it is also not the dangerous and radical departure from US policy that his liberal critics make it out to be. Fact is, the United States in general, and the Obama administration in particular, never had an open-borders policy for all refugees from everywhere, so overwrought rhetoric about Trump ripping down Lady Libertys promise means comparing him to an ideal state that never existed. Moreover, liberals were silent when then-President Obama effectively discriminated against persecuted religious-minority Christians from Syria (even while explicitly admitting that ISIS was pursuing a policy of genocide against Syrian Christians).

Sports watch: Longer NFL Season Would Be Safer

The National Football League has announced a $100 million initiative to study and combat Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Thats commendable, but the sad reality is that it is not nearly enough to combat a player safety problem that threatens the very existence of the league, contend Ike Brannon and Travis Reuther at The Weekly Standard. They suggest lengthening the NFL season without more games by simply adding three additional bye weeks. That would improve player health to some extent, since the downtime would give players a chance to better recover between games. Another upside: Increased TV rights would bring in an added $1.3 billion in revenue.

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